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/mˈunʃˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Moonshine n.

The light of the moon.

Hence, show without substance or reality.

A month. (R.)

A preparation of eggs for food. (Obs.)

Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)

adjective

Moonshine adj.

Moonlight. (R.)

Empty; trivial; idle.

Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Moonshine'

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"Moonshine" Quotes from Famous Books

... number of schoolmates and a large circle of their cousins and brothers. She was generally very good and only now and then broke out with a venturesome enterprise that hurt nobody. She got out of a skylight, for example, and perambulated the roof in the moonshine to see how it felt and did one or two other little things of a similar kind. Otherwise her conduct was admirable and her temper in those days was always contagiously good. That attractiveness which Mr. Brumley felt, was already very ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... strange specimens I once met with in a negro called Moonshine, belonging to a person equally strange in his own way, who had, for many years, held the situation of harbour-master at Port Royal, but had then retired on a pension, and occupied a small house at Ryde, ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... genius of the Jewish race. To understand our poet, we must keep in mind that Heinrich Heine was a Jew born in the days of romanticism in a town on the Rhine. His intellect and his sensuousness, of Jewish origin, were wedded with Rhenish fancy and blitheness, and over these qualities the pale moonshine of ...

— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles

... the faltering outbursts of Sterne's followers and indicated a more comprehensible and hence more efficient, outlet for their sentimentalism. Now again, "every nook resounded with the whining sentimentality, with sighs, kisses, forget-me-nots, moonshine, tears and ecstasies;" those hearts excited by Yorick's gospel, gropingly endeavoring to find an outlet for their own emotions which, in their opinion were characteristic of their arouser and stimulator, ...

— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

... a somnambulist, look, on that bench, Whither in sleep, as you would ne'er believe, The moonshine lured him, vaguely occupied Imagining himself posterity And weaving for his brow the crown ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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